Words matter. These are the best Chris Milk Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It’s weird: you do a TED talk on something, and people think that you suddenly have a lot of answers around the topic.
As a species, the look of another of our species into our eyes has a great power. It can mean a lot of different things: aggression, love.
I knew a bit about the capabilities of HTML5 and have always had a preoccupation with technology. I wanted to delve deeper, to see what else it could do. The technology becomes the palette that you make the artwork with, your palette and your paint.
As entertainment and storytelling move in the direction of more immersive environments, binaural sound will begin to play a larger and larger role in those experiences.
I prefer making stuff to talking about how I made the stuff.
In virtual reality, we’re placing the viewer inside a moment or a story… made possible by sound and visual technology that’s actually tricking the brain into believing it’s somewhere else.
A bad version of a virtual reality video makes you vomit in your headset in under 10 seconds. It’s much easier to make bad VR than it is to make good VR.
When the protagonist breaks the fourth wall by looking at the camera in a movie, it’s generally been used for comedic purposes, rather than feeling like they’re looking into your soul.
Web projects aren’t done until I’m happy, or someone changes the password to the server. A formal release does not stop me from working on it more.
It’s easy to lose the humanity when you start showcasing tech.
Where I stand, or where the people I work with stand, is the technology is inevitable, so it’s about how do we steer it.
I love technology. I love trying to tell stories in new ways using technology.
I was born into a world in which the most compelling stories are through film. But that wasn’t always the case. Everything changes; everything evolves.
With virtual reality, I’m not interested in the novelty factor. I’m interested in the foundations for a medium that could be more powerful than cinema, than theatre, than literature, than any other medium we’ve had before to connect one human being to another.
In virtual reality, it’s more about capturing and creating worlds that people are inhabiting. You really are a creator in the way the audience lives within the world that you are building.
I want to figure out what comes after cinema as the gold standard for storytelling.
All these experiments I’ve done over the years with technology have been asking whether I can tell stories that affect humans in a deeper way than I could without the technology.
Virtual reality is a technology that could actually allow you to connect on a real human level, soul-to-soul, regardless of where you are in the world.
Music scores your life. You interact with it. You listen to it in the car. It becomes the soundtrack to that one summer with that one girl.
We build camera rigs tailored specifically to the story we’re trying to tell or the shot we’re trying to capture.
If there’s a new HBO series, you know there’s going to be a certain level of storytelling mastery – that you can trust it.
I didn’t want to be a storyteller when I grew up; I wanted to be stuntman.
If you look at all the technology we’re interconnected with every day, all this complex technology that connects humanity, it actually doesn’t connect us.
For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.
With Street View, you’re curating a data set capable of incredible emotional resonance for the person interacting with it because everyone grew up somewhere. And if your house is in this dataset, that’s going to provide some emotional context for you.
Music is a great catalyst for emotion because it gets to your core.
Virtual reality is already affecting people on an emotional level much more than any other media, and it has the potential to scale: all you need is an attachment for your cellphone, and you can have this experience.
Your head is a stereo input. The density and cartilage of your ears embed certain extra characteristics into stereo sound sources. Your brain decodes that and gives you sound plus conscious directions.
My premise is that there’s something hardwired into our DNA, that we as a species came and evolved from caves and clans and tribes, and therefore, we as a species care more about the things that are local to us than we care about the things that are ‘over there’ from us.
Every digital video player – RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, Vevo, Hulu, YouTube – all of them had different ways of getting you the video, but it was still always the same series of rectangles. The format never changed.
My primary goal is always to tell a story that will resonate with people on a deeply emotional level.
Video games as a storytelling medium are, from a mathematical standpoint, a branching narrative. You start at one place, you can go in multiple different directions, and there’s a multitude of different endings.
So much of journalism is conveying a place and time that existed, to someone at a later date: giving a person the context and trying to make them feel as informed as if they were actually there.
When you stand in a traditional audience, you have a wall of amplified sound coming at you from one direction. Everyone’s familiar with that.
Film is this incredible medium that allows us to feel empathy for people that are very different than us and worlds completely foreign from our own.
